ONLY ONE TRUE GOD ANAKE KOTAHI ATUA TINO
If you were to ask people, “Who is God?” or “What is God like?” you would get all sorts of answers because there are many ideas in the world today concerning God. But many of them are wrong. How, then, are we to know the truth? First, God has revealed something of Himself in His creation – in the things He has made. As we look at creation and begin to understand something of its immense size and complexities, whether in the leaves of the trees, the wings of a butterfly, or the stars of the night sky, we know that God must be highly intelligent and very powerful. But we can never really get to know what God is like just by looking at creation by itself. We can only get to know what God is like if He tells us, and He has done so through His Word, the Bible. When we come to the Bible an especially important thing we learn is that there is only one true God. He is not just the God of the Maori people or the Pakeha people or the Asian people, or any other particular race. He is the God who created all people for Himself. The Bible says, “From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth” (Acts 17:26). Concerning this important truth, here are some verses for you to underline in your Bible. (We are quoting from the New International Version). God says in Isaiah 44, verse 6, “I am the First and I am the Last; apart from Me there is no God.” Isaiah 45, verse 5 says, “I am the LORD (Jehovah), and there is no other; apart from Me there is no God.” Verse 6 of the same chapter says, “I am the LORD and there is no other.” Isaiah 45, verses 18 and 22 tell us the same thing. Finally, Isaiah 45, verse 22 says, “Turn to Me and be saved all you ends of the earth; for I am God and there is no other.” The Bible makes it abundantly clear that all other gods are false. But not only does the Bible tell us there is only one God, it tells us what He is like and how we can have a personal relationship with Him. What are some of the other things the Bible tells us about God? It shows us that God exists in three Persons -- God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. These are the three Persons of the Godhead who work together in perfect harmony (Matthew 28:19).
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